Connecticut western news., 1887-09-07
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.

the British steamer Wydale have each re- ceived from President Cleveland gold watch reecuing the crew of the American schooner Joseph Baymore in June last.
 There is tradition that about 100 years - ago gang of Spanish outlaws had their head quarters in the mountains of Perry County, Pa, where they were secretly engaged in melting silver ore and coining countefeit money. Recently outcroppings of silver have been found there, and a Philadelphia syndi- cate has leased a large tract of land to test the value of the deposits.
 Gen. Greedy of the Signal Service will sail for Europe on Sept. 10. He will confer with the French meteorological officers with refer ence to an exchange of international weather reports by cable.
 Ezra L. Stevens, who has been employed in the Indian Office at Washington for thirty years, has been induced to resign.
 Sir John Mcdonald has authorized the press to repeat his denial of the report that British troops will be sent to Manitoba to en- force the disallowance of the Red River Valley Railroad charter. He says the remarks at tributed to him are malicious fssehoods-
 No rain has fallen in Cheboygan county, Mich, since July 4. Millions of feet of logs and sawed timber are being destroyed by fire. F. Kerns, Buffalo inventor, has devised machine by which he thinks he will be en- abled to utilize the water power at Niagara 10 light the city of Buffalo by electricity at Q nominal cost.
 The question who shall be the next Con- mander-in-Chief of the G. A. R. is exciting great interest. It is said that there are now practically but two candidates in the field for the ofice-Gen. Slocum of New York, repre- senting the Eat, and Gen. Grier of St. Louis representing the West. It is claimed that all the Western States, with the possible excep- ton of one will give Gen. Grier their undivi- ded support, and that gentleman's friends think he will have sufficient strength to effect his election.
 Gen. Buckner was inaugurated as Govern. or of Kentucky.
 The approach of the anniversary of the great Charleston earthquake and 8 renewal of the shocks in that vicinity causes considerable alarm Tho negroes are holding nightly pray CT meetings.
 Mary. the fortune-telling Gypsy Queen of Boston, fell from her second-story window and broke har neck.
 The graveyard insurance companies which . were driven out of Michigan by the law pass ed last winter have found a secure lodgment in Indiana State and have already begun to eause trouble.
 Tho city of San Francisco has invited President Cleveland to visit there.
 During heavy wind and rain storm six weight valuable brood mares owned by Booth kncebs and D. T. Gilr2an, and corraled near the Sioux City, Ia., fair grounds, either stam- peded or were run of, and diligent search
 
 The latest exploit of Kate Kane, the woman lawyer of Chicago, was to fog neigh Dor with broomstick, for doing which she is now under arrest.
 An old German named Wedge, living at Ncemah, Wis, has been in the habit of letting his COW feed on grass near the railroad track: He had Q rope on the COW and tied the end of it to his wrist. When the cars came along the COW started across the track, bringing the old man with her, and the engine struck him, knocking him into the air about twenty feet and killing him instantly.
 Gen. Nelson A. Miles was thrown from a tally-ho coach near Los Angeles, and had his right leg broken at the ankle. Several others sustained slight injuries by the accident.
 A year ago Mira. Eliza McAllister, an eldcr,y person of Terre Haute, Ind, was mys- teriously lost from Chicago & Alton train between St. Louis and Kansas City. Her re: mains have just been found on the Missouri River bank just below the Saline boundary. They were Identified by ring bearing her name. It is believed she fell from the train crossing the river at Glasgow.
 James H. Meacham, the we'll known map publisher of Detroit, has been accidentally killed while hunting in Nebraska.
 -Au American inventor in the City of Mex ieo announces that he has discovered new and unsu pected force the nature of which enables him to elevate high in the air the largest ships and to transplant then from
 
 land, making ship railway useless.
 Henry Francis, an ex-convict, incendiary and thief, committed suicide at Royalton, O., by cutting his throat on his mothers grave. Bob Stockton of a good Mississippi fam fly, but who was slightly insane, killed Mrs. Sarah Richardson in New Orleans. Stockton s family were about sending him to an insane asylum, but did not regard him as dangerous. He became convinced that Mrs. Richardson had done him some injury, and going to her house opened fire on her with 8 doublc-bsrrel- led gun shot gun.
 Robert T. Lincoln is quoted as saying that he would under no circumstances accept . nomination for the Vice Presidency.
 The Collector of Customs It Suspension Bridge has seized the Canadian steamer Hast inSs, at Lewiston, for violation of the Nayi- gation laws in carrying passengers between Lewiston and Olcott, two American ports.
 The extensive works of tho St. Louis Car Wheel Company in St. Louis wero burned; loss. $10O,0O0.
 Little Pete, ChinaJuan, has been convict ed in San Francisco of giving bribes. He i: the agent of powerful secret society of Chi nese highbinders who have spent large amounts of money in his defence. Pete has defeated the ends of justice in many cases involving Chinese criminals. Certain politicians always acted with him, and his conviction is some what surprising.
 The Bald Knobbers all escaped with small fines.
 Mrs. Drew, a young widow of West Strat ford, Conn.,, while walking in her sleep fel into well, from which sire was rescued and placed again in her bed, where she slept unti morning. She knew nothing of her adventure until she was told the following day.
 Tho trade on the Pacific, owing to the rivalry between the Canada and Northern Pa elhc Railroads, is receiving boom.
 Arrangements have been perfected for tho establishment of d school in Worcester Mass by colony of the Christian Brothers of the Eoman Catholic Church. Land has already been purchased and the erection of the nece 8 sary buildings will be begun at once.
 b-A fl near Detroit, Mich, destroyed the arrel factory of Peter Havomeyer & Sons entai:inS a loss of nearly SS50,OO0.
 The Chinese Government has granted { banking monopoly to an American syndicate which Is represented by Count Mitkiewicz anf MT. Wharton Bar;er of Philadelphia. Tn, company has 6 capital of $7O, ,00l, ,06O. It vii have the sole light to coin money, construc all public wor s, receive and disbIrSe all Gov ernment funds, and has monopoly of tn, telegraph, telephone and railway business fo, fifty years.
 Mexico was shaken by another earth quake.
 Several Mormon families have settled nea Medicine Hat, Northwest Territory The, have intimated to the authorities that they d. not propose to carry out the principles of thei religion, at least in as far as marrying nor than one wife is concerned. The Governmen will therefore no. molest them. The North western papers have welcomed the new arri vals.
 Charles Madison, . colo-ed boy of Nort Hale. Ala, while on his way to school stole watermelon from his grandfather's melo patch. When he returned home he was stri, red of his clothing, bound hand and foot thrown on the ground, and severely beate with stout hickory switches by his father an two other negroes. He was then ssbucked and whipped Firing of these modes of toI ture, they swung the boy to tree head down ward, and beat him until all three of then